[FOSS4G-Oceania] Fwd: Governance

[Cameron Shorter]

I'm not expecting to have bandwidth for most face-to-face meetings, but 
will comment occasionally via email.

Re setting up a committee, I reckon we ideally should adopt an existing 
mandate and processes of a similar (and good) committee. Copying from 
OSGeo would be a good candidate for this. In practice, I expect it won't 
go that smoothly, but copying as much as we can will likely be a good start.

 From my skimming of what has been written so far, I'm in favour of 
suggestions, and I trust the people putting the proposals together.

Cheers, Cameron

On 13/12/18 9:10 pm, John Bryant wrote:
> Hear hear... It seems like a super esoteric discussion in many ways, 
> but if you have any thoughts, please share them... as Adam suggests, 
> we're feeling our way through this and your opinion counts.
>
> On Thu., 13 Dec. 2018, 5:56 pm adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com 
> <mailto:adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Great stuff John, Alex, Greg. Looking forward to the discussion
>     tomorrow!
>
>     To anyone lurking on the list thinking ‘I’d love to have a say
>     but…’ - dive in. Turn up at the meeting and bring your ideas!
>     We’re all learning as we go.
>
>
>
>     On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 17:47, Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gregory.lauer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         +1
>
>         My only comment is though I am very comfortable that the
>         current 2018 committee (for want of a better word) has a
>         mandate to form an executive, in a similar vein to John;s
>         comments,I would suggest that we make it an 'interim'
>         executive, that is dissolved once/if a formal entity/structure
>         is created. Of course it would be quite likely that the
>         members of the interim executive would become the formal
>         executive, but it allows the 'membership' (again for want of a
>         better word) to decide on the composition as per any proposed
>         terms of reference etc. It would also allow us, as per John
>         comments above, to encourage diversity in the board
>         composition once the structure is in place.
>
>         On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:12 PM John Bryant
>         <johnwbryant at gmail.com <mailto:johnwbryant at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Good point re: a formal org. My take is there is
>             sufficient support for the idea to at least determine
>             clear options. I like Greg's suggestion of forming a small
>             working group to research the options, consult, and form a
>             recommendation we can implement. In the meantime, we need
>             a group to vest authority in...
>
>             My reasoning for including step 2 is this: we've typically
>             referred to this group as the '/FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018
>             organising committee/', it needs a fresh mandate &
>             identity, and there may be some people who wish to retire
>             (and possibly some desire to bring in new people, eg. New
>             Zealanders or Pacific Islanders?). However, this could
>             perhaps be easily achieved by appointing a new group from
>             those of us who wish to continue serving, and calling it
>             by a new name with a new mandate, and making some
>             provision for new members.
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